Holy Alliance

American  

noun

1. a league formed by the principal sovereigns of Europe in 1815 with the professed object of promoting Christian brotherhood but the practical object of repressing democratic revolutions and institutions. The English and Turkish rulers and Pope Pius VII did not join the league.

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Holy Alliance British  

noun

1. a document advocating government according to Christian principles that was signed in 1815 by the rulers of Russia, Prussia, and Austria

2. the informal alliance that resulted from this agreement

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Example Sentences

Britain’s foreign minister proposed that the United States join Britain in issuing a joint statement warning France and the Holy Alliance against imposing their will on the former Spanish colonies.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

At conferences in 1820 and 1821, the Holy Alliance declared their right to intervene in rebellions that threatened to unseat European monarchs.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Forces loyal to the Austrian emperor, aided by a full-scale Russian invasion of Hungary in the name of Holy Alliance principles, restored Habsburg rule across the entirety of the empire by the autumn of 1849.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

The Holy Alliance was formed on the initiative of Alexander I. This alliance was formed principally upon moral and religious conviction that war was wrong.

From Time Magazine Archive

Great Britain had scented in this Holy Alliance a combination of continental powers which might prove, in some degree at least, as dangerous to her continental relations as the commercial system of Bonaparte had been.

From The Middle Period 1817-1858 by Burgess, John William